The Congress high command had come to the firm
conclusion that the odds were anyway stacked against the party in the
ensuing by-elections and there was no need to spare Y. S. Jaganmohan
Reddy under these circumstances.
This was the refrain
among Congress leaders while justifying Mr. Jagan's arrest. A Minister
quoted an AICC leader as saying that “why should Mr. Jagan Reddy be
spared when our own Minister has been arrested in the illegal assets
case.”
For record's sake, Congress leaders played
down the political implications of the arrest of the YSR Congress
president by describing it as routine work done by the CBI probing
illegal assets case. PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana said that the arrest
was neither a loss nor gain for the ruling party. “How is the Congress
party connected to his arrest,” he told
The Hindu
. Remaining guarded in their reaction, they tried to differentiate
between the corruption cases filed against the Kadapa MP and the
sympathy that his party might gain in the by-elections.
from Hindu
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